Newly installed dnsmasq not able to start

I currently have a CentOS machine at my home working as a server (very small server). Since CentOS7 is doing some strange things soon, I decided to move to Ubuntu. I do have a little familiarity with Ubuntu but it appears not enough.

I wanted the GUI interface and since this is a small server, I installed Ubuntu desktop 22.0.4. I also installed a few services like net-tools etc.

I wanted the first service that I am running on my old CentOS machine to be my local DNS so I installed dnsmasq and get the following error:

× dnsmasq.service - dnsmasq - A lightweight DHCP and caching DNS server
     Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/dnsmasq.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
     Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Sun 2023-01-01 09:43:29 MST; 19ms ago
    Process: 59075 ExecStartPre=/etc/init.d/dnsmasq checkconfig (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
    Process: 59083 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/dnsmasq systemd-exec (code=exited, status=2)
        CPU: 28ms

Jan 01 09:43:28 XXXXXXX systemd[1]: Starting dnsmasq - A lightweight DHCP and caching DNS server...
Jan 01 09:43:29 XXXXXXX dnsmasq[59083]: dnsmasq: failed to create listening socket for port 53: Address already in use
Jan 01 09:43:29 XXXXXXX dnsmasq[59083]: failed to create listening socket for port 53: Address already in use
Jan 01 09:43:29 XXXXXXX dnsmasq[59083]: FAILED to start up
Jan 01 09:43:29 XXXXXXX systemd[1]: dnsmasq.service: Control process exited, code=exited, status=2/INVALIDARGUMENT
Jan 01 09:43:29 XXXXXXX systemd[1]: dnsmasq.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Jan 01 09:43:29 XXXXXXX systemd[1]: Failed to start dnsmasq - A lightweight DHCP and caching DNS server.

When I do a journalctl -xeu dnsmasq.service, I get the following information:

Subject: Unit process exited
░░ Defined-By: systemd
░░ Support: http://www.ubuntu.com/support
░░
░░ An ExecStart= process belonging to unit dnsmasq.service has exited.
░░
░░ The process' exit code is 'exited' and its exit status is 2.
Jan 01 09:54:42 XXXXXXX dnsmasq[80424]: failed to create listening socket for port 53: Address already in use
Jan 01 09:54:42 XXXXXXX systemd[1]: dnsmasq.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
░░ Subject: Unit failed
░░ Defined-By: systemd
░░ Support: http://www.ubuntu.com/support
░░
░░ The unit dnsmasq.service has entered the 'failed' state with result 'exit-code'.
Jan 01 09:54:42 XXXXXXX dnsmasq[80424]: FAILED to start up
Jan 01 09:54:42 XXXXXXX systemd[1]: Failed to start dnsmasq - A lightweight DHCP and caching DNS server.
░░ Subject: A start job for unit dnsmasq.service has failed
░░ Defined-By: systemd
░░ Support: http://www.ubuntu.com/support
░░
░░ A start job for unit dnsmasq.service has finished with a failure.
░░
░░ The job identifier is 23394 and the job result is failed.

Can someone point me in the right direction? I don't see anything running on port 53 but, I've been known to miss things.

Thanks in advance for all your help... Also, thins is a brand new clean Ubuntu install with just a couple of apps I added.

Thanks, Brian